Store clerk injured after robbery

SAN MARCOS -- A liquor store clerk was injured early Sunday
morning after allegedly being thrown from a moving vehicle by men
who stole beer from his store.

The incident was reported at 12:49 a.m., after the clerk
reportedly tried to stop three young men from stealing several
cases of beer from the 7-Eleven store in the 500 block of Mulberry
Drive, sheriff's Lt. William Donahue said.

The clerk jumped over the counter and chased the men out,
prompting a fight in the store's parking lot. The men pulled the
clerk into their sport-utility vehicle and drove off onto Mission
Road, the lieutenant said.

The men drove a few blocks before throwing the clerk from the
moving vehicle, Donahue said. The clerk sustained cuts, bruises and
roadrash and was treated at Palomar Medical Center.

The suspects are described as Latinos in their late teens or
early 20s traveling in a dark-colored SUV with oversized chrome
rims.